“I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'” PeopleIfsFirstsLooksSaidShowsWould BeClassTeachPiecesMissingLateFabulousDeadlineLove To ReadLush Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's late string quartets. The music that the musical community selects, however, is usually the very best.” LooksCommunityPiecesLateMusicalStringsSurvivedQuartetsString Quartets Author:David Finckel
“Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically get to reflect different ideas. But it doesn't mean that it's not a painful process. There are some really late nights.” MeanPersonsIdeasDifferentNightProcessFocusPiecesLatePainfulArticlesMultipleLate NightDifferent Ideas Author:Noma Bar
“We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.” KnowsPiecesLate Author:John Noble
“I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8" on it. I love working on them. I can't fix a computer or a car, but I can fix a typewriter. I like them because you can write on them late at night, depending on what you're fortifying yourself with, and the next morning you can still figure what you wrote.” WritingStillsI CanNightNextMorningPiecesCarFiguresComputerLateTapeTypewriters Author:Eddie Vedder